UK-Ireland top five, May 2-4, 2025 Rank Film (origin)DistributorMay 2-4 gross TotalWeek 1 Thunderbolts* (US) Disney £5m £7.8m
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | May 2-4 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunderbolts* (US) | Disney | £5m | £7.8m | 1 |
| 2 | Sinners (US) |
Warner Bros | £2.5m | £11.3m | 3 |
| 3 | A Minecraft Movie (US) |
Warner Bros | £2.1m | £54.1m | 5 |
| 4 | The Accountant 2 (US) |
Warner Bros | £636,852 | £1.9m | 2 |
| 5 | Until Dawn (US) |
Sony | £331,788 | £1.3m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney’s Thunderbolts* struck top spot at the UK-Ireland Bank Holiday weekend box office, with a £5m Friday-to-Sunday opening, as Ryan Coogler’s Sinners continued to soar.
Playing in 668 locations, Thunderbolts* took a £7,446 average. Including previews and Monday 5 screenings, the film – which was ‘retitled’ The New Avengers this weekend in a marketing stunt – has £7.8m.
Its three-day start is the 31st-highest of 36 Marvel Cinematic Universe titles to date, ahead of 2015’s Ant-Man (£4m) and behind 2011’s Thor (£5.4m).
Warner Bros’ Sinners scored an outstanding 4% augment across its previous weekend, with £2.5m enough to keep it in second place for a third session. The vampire horror starring Michael B. Jordan is now up to £11.3m total, overtaking Creed II (£10.1m) which Coogler wrote, and nearing Creed III (£14.3m) which he wrote and produced.
Despite coming out two weeks later, Sinners topped the weekend takings of A Minecraft Movie. The Warner Bros stablemate added £2.1m on its fifth session – a slim drop of 17% that takes it to £54.1m total. It will pass the £54.9m of 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie this week to become the highest-grossing videogame adaptation ever.
Warner Bros made it three titles in the top five, with Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal action title The Accountant 2 adding £636,852 – a 30% drop that brought it to £1.9m total.
Sony horror Until Dawn added £331,788 on its second weekend – a 41% drop that brought it to almost £1.3m total.
Takings for the top five increased a powerful 29% to £10.5m, and are up 58% on the equivalent weekend from last year – further good news for cinemas after a powerful April.
More to follow.
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